Although many Hong Kong people are proud to live in Hong Kong, they would rather live in a public housing of 30 or 40 square meters than go to the mainland to work.

But in the end, Hong Kong is a city, with such a population, and there are hundreds of thousands of comic book fans.

If Lei Weidong wants to expand the influence of "The King of Painting" in Hong Kong, he must develop a new readership base on the basis of existing comic fans, and women, who make up half of Hong Kong's population, are the best choice!

In today's Xiangjiang, the beautiful comics that are popular with girls have not yet appeared, and the comics are mainly martial arts comics, and the audience of these comics is mainly boys. And there are almost no suitable for girls.

The three comics selected by Lei Weidong earlier can be said to have covered all the popular comic genres in Hong Kong.

Even if Lei Weidong still has classic comics like "Saint Seiya" and "Dragon Ball" in his hands, drawing them now will not have much effect on the sales of "Painting King".

After all, "City Hunter", "Xun Qin", and "Fist of the North Dipper" can already make Hong Kong's current comic fans like it, and if you want to increase sales, you can only find those girls who haven't read comics.

And compared to boys who like to play video games, love basketball, football and other sports.

For Lei Weidong, girls who naturally like to be quiet actually have a larger customer base than boys.

If nothing else, let's just say that the sales of countless girl's romance novels have always accounted for half of the novel market, and they have been growing for a long time.

Even in the era of online novels in the 21st century, the power of women in women's novels cannot be ignored.

If you want to develop female comic fans in Hong Kong, Lei Weidong can actually make not many choices, and there are only more classic Japanese shoujo comics or pet-type comics such as "Pokemon".

In this regard, Lei Weidong had to sigh that Japan is worthy of being the kingdom of comics, and there are all kinds of comics.

The reason why Lei Weidong didn't choose pet comics, such as pet comics like Bikachu and Xiyangyang, is mainly because the time is not ripe now, you must know that the peripheral profits of pet comics are too big, so big that Lei Weidong can't control them at all now.

And in a place like Hong Kong, piracy is just too bad.

It can be said that once it is found that the pet dolls produced by Lei Weidong make money, all kinds of copycats will come out immediately, and there is no way at all.

There are also those wealthy families in Hong Kong, don't believe the bottom line of those businessmen, if those people find that the profits of pet comics are so big, they will definitely make a black hand and gnaw Lei Weidong to the scum.

So Lei Weidong can only choose girl's comics now. Although the sales of shoujo manga are generally not very high. But there are also a small number of shoujo comics that sell quite amazingly, and what Lei Weidong needs to do is to choose a classic among the shoujo comics he has seen before.

As mentioned earlier, for women's comics, Lei Weidong actually doesn't have many choices, mainly because there are only a few girl comics that Lei Weidong has read in his previous life, and there is no way that few boys will like to read girl's aesthetic comics.

Lei Weidong's previous life was not a pseudo. Mother, it's just that those girl's comics are all because they are more classic, Lei Weidong's own sister likes to buy them, and Lei Weidong just flipped through them when he was bored. A lot of the manga is only partially read.

In Lei Weidong's memory, the best-selling shoujo comics, namely "Meteor Garden", "Sailor Moon", "Angel Red Riverbank" and "Nile Daughter" to talk about a few.

Among them, "Meteor Garden" is needless to say, not only the comics are influential, but the TV series changed according to the "Meteor Garden" comics, I believe most people have watched it, and it was popular in Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland China and Southeast Asia at that time.

This TV series became popular with the four handsome guys of F4 at once. made Big S also become an idol superstar from an ordinary TV star.

With more than 54 million copies of its original manga, it is the best-selling manga in Japanese shoujo manga, and has been translated into various Chinese languages, and has also been remade by various media, CD, idol dramas, movies, and so on.

It's a pity that Lei Weidong hasn't read this comic, and has only watched the TV series "Meteor Garden". Although I can draw it, it's a pity that it's too difficult, so I have the opportunity to make it into a TV series first, and then change it into a comic.

And "Sailor Moon" doesn't need to be described, it is the originator of the girl's combat comics, and it perfectly combines the two popular elements of the transformation girl and the magic team.

Especially when a beautiful girl transforms, the visual impact is really unstoppable, and some teenagers with weak tolerance are more likely to have nosebleeds.

As for "Daughter of the Nile", it is a shoujo comic, which can be said to be the originator of the time-traveling genre, and it is very popular, ranking third in sales among Japanese shoujo comics, with more than 36 million copies.

The disadvantage is that the update of this comic is too slow, and it doesn't seem to be over after decades, and in his previous life, Lei Weidong didn't know if the book was over.

However, the story of this book seems to be set in the 70s, and it is estimated that the release year is likely to be in these years. I don't know if it's released now, forget it or give it up just in case, in case of a crash, it will be troublesome.

"Angel Red River Bank" is a shoujo manga created by Japanese manga artist Chie Shinohara in 1995.

Set against the historical background of the Hitato Empire (Hittite Empire), an ancient country on the ancient Anatolian plateau, it tells the story of the young girl Yuri, who was originally an ordinary schoolgirl and accidentally returned to the past Hitato Empire.

In this comic book, the heroine Yuri descends on this otherworldly void, and love is not the main theme of the story. On the contrary, politics and war surround the left and right, and the warriors occupy a large chapter.

The manga has sold more than 16 million copies, and it can be said that it is a rare war-themed shoujo manga.

In the comics, when the evening pear rode the horse that was only willing to succumb to her Aslan galloped on both sides of the Red River that stretched to the end of the sky, the sunset was like blood, the girl's pupils were like blood, and the whole world was bright red like blood, which was a kind of epic that could not tell the magnificent waves.

As far as these girl comics are concerned, strictly speaking, the ones that can make Lei Weidong choose are "Angel Red Riverbank" and "Sailor Moon".

Both shoujo manga have their own advantages, one is a rare war-themed shoujo manga with higher sales, and the other has more peripheral markets.

In Lei Weidong's memory, the toy of "Sailor Moon". Posters are very popular, not to mention the Sailor Moon anime and movies.

After thinking about it, Lei Weidong still decided to use the comic "Sailor Moon".

After all, this is the first girl's battle comic, which is more suitable for the Hong Kong market, although the battle plot is average, but as a girl's comic, it can already attract those girls.

Of course, since "Sailor Moon" was born in Hong Kong, the background of the comic book also needs to be modified, and many Japanese elements such as cherry blossoms, hot springs, names, etc. have to be modified. But there's no rush right now. Wait until you find the right person to paint and decide.

Now that all four manga have been decided. It's time to think about the release of "The King of Paintings". Because of the sales channel of "Xingchen Daily", Lei Weidong only needs to consider the problem of "The King of Paintings" itself.

Nowadays, Hong Kong magazines are generally only published once a week, but some are issued twice a week, and for Lei Weidong, it would be a bit of a waste if a comic like Drawing King was published once a week.

Two copies a week is just fine, but pricing is a big issue. If it's too expensive, it will cause sales to plummet. After all, the main customers of comics are still teenagers, and if the price is too expensive, they will definitely not be able to sell it.

Because it was the reason that the four comics were published together, Lei Weidong prepared that each painting king plus the catalogue and cover cover would be 51 pages, and each comic would be 12 pages, and the cover would be printed in color.

Using 16K paper, the retail price is 4 yuan, and the wholesale price is 3.5 yuan. This price is a little more expensive than the most popular comic strip in Hong Kong, Dragon Tiger Gate, but the number of pages is also much more.

Moreover, twenty-four pages per manga per week can be counted once a single book is released, and such a large amount can be completed at the drawing speed of an ordinary manga artist.

According to Lei Weidong's pricing, "The King of Paintings" has two copies a week, a total of only 8 yuan, which is affordable for those comic book fans.

It can completely stimulate sales, and because the comics are attractive, a painting king can actually be read in one day, and it can be read in two days if it is slower, and it can be free for a day or two, and it can reduce the appetite of consumers, and it does not make them lose patience in a hurry.

However, if you release two copies of the king of painting every week, the screenwriter will definitely need a lot, even if it is an assembly-line comic method, the minimum configuration of each comic book needs 1 editor-in-chief, and 3 assistants also need 16 talents, plus some other miscellaneous personnel, the comic club needs at least 20 people to draw comics.

But fortunately, it has only been two years since the comic industry was in a recession, and there are many cartoonists who have just changed careers and can still be recruited. If it was the 80s, because the comic industry had been in decline for too long, it was difficult to find enough cartoonists.

Otherwise, Huang Yulang would not have produced an assembly-line comic in order to increase the rate.

Although the assembly line comic is fast, it also has many drawbacks.

Ask an editor to write the script, color, outline, a main writer, etc., so that the comics are produced, but it also means that this comic is no different from fast food, not to mention that there will be good ideas and personality elements that represent the author.

In fact, this model has a clear division of labor, and cartoonists have become like office workers, and they carry out mass production like workers every day, rather than quality production, so it can be said that it is absolutely not voluntary to come to this point as a cartoonist.

This is also why after the 90s, Hong Kong comics did not innovate, but mainly adapted the comic version of the novel.

However, for Lei Weidong now, the assembly-line comic method is the best, because Lei Weidong is now focusing on making money, in order to draw those classic comics in the shortest possible time, speed is the first, and Lei Weidong has too much creativity.

Of course, Lei Weidong also took into account that if Xiaomi Comics Club wants to further develop and grow, it must not just rely on Lei Weidong to guide a few comics, it must have a strong hematopoietic mechanism and enter a virtuous circle.

After the popularity of "The King of Painting", in order to consider it in the future, Lei Weidong will expand the version of "The King of Painting" from 51 pages to 70 or 80 pages on the basis of a slight increase in price.

Then each issue is voted on, and readers decide whether to keep the collected comics, and the comics that are popular with readers will stay, and the unpopular ones will be removed from the shelves no matter how much you have to do with them.

The advantage of doing this is that it can cultivate the reserve force of the comic club,After all, Lei Weidong's energy is limited,Although there are countless classic comics in his mind, they are all rootless water,Lei Weidong can support the development of Xiaomi Comics Club for five or even ten years,What about ten years later,Not to mention that Lei Weidong remembers only a few girl's comics。

As for whether it can cultivate the reserve force of the comic club, Lei Weidong is not worried at all, although there are not many people in Hong Kong, and there are few choices, but the mainland is full of talents, and there are no talents for a billion people, the key is your cultivation, not to mention anything else, let's just say that the "King of Paintings" in the previous life had a huge influence among comic fans.